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Nutrients: Understanding the Essentials for a Healthy Body

Discover the importance of nutrients like carbohydrates, fats, proteins, vitamins, minerals, and water in sustaining life and energy. Explore the key roles each nutrient plays and how they benefit your body's functions.

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Nutrients: Understanding the Essentials for a Healthy Body

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  1. INSTRUCTIONS • Come in and have a seat quickly and quietly. • Take out a sheet of notebook paper. • Write down a list of your three favorite foods.

  2. STRANGE “BUTT” TRUE The Palm Civet ingests Coffee Cherries and excretes a coffee bean used in a type of coffee known as Kopi Luwak. The market value on a pound of Kopi Luwak is $110.

  3. Nutrients • Nutrients are substances in food that provide energy and materials for life purposes. • There are six kinds of nutrients: • Carbohydrates Fats • Protein Vitamins • Minerals Water

  4. Carbohydrates • Carbohydrates, or “carbs” are made of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. • Carbs give us ENERGY • Two types: • Simple – sugars: fructose, sucrose, etc. • Complex – starches: pasta, rice, whole grains

  5. Fats • Fats provide energy storage for our bodies. • Three types: • Unsaturated: oils, liquid at room temp. • Saturated: solid at room temp. • Trans Fats: Created when hydrogen is added to vegetable oils, used for freshness.

  6. Protein • Proteins build and repair your body, as well as regulating processes in your body • Proteins are made up of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and NITROGEN • Amino Acids are the building blocks of protein

  7. Vitamins, Minerals, Water • Vitamins help to control some body functions • Minerals are essential elements like calcium, potassium, sodium, iron, and others. • Water – Your body is 60-70% water, chemical reactions take place in water.

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